Robotron: 2084
Platform: ZX Spectrum
Region: UK
Media: Snapshot
Controller: Kempston, Interface 2 (left) & (right), Cursor and Keyboard
Genre: Shoot 'em Up - Arcade - Action
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1984
Developer: Atarisoft
Publisher: Atarisoft
Players: 1
Licensed from: Williams Electronics Inc
Programmer: Paul Holmes
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This is a port of the arcade game of the same name.

You are a mutant human, who by some freak of nature has the ability to shoot energy pulses from his body in eight different directions! Your job is simple: save humanity from their own creation -- the ROBOTRONS! The gameplay is pretty unique for the time. You can move and fire in any of eight directions. You get thrown in a room with various evil baddies strewn about, you've got to kill all the robots while at the same time finding some way to grab humans and avoid death. 

Trivia:

This is one of the better Atarisoft conversions; everything is very faithful to the original, single joystick control is very good, and there is practically no slowdown on a 4.77MHz machine. This is notable because the Atarisoft conversions of the early 1980s varied wildly in quality, from faithful to extremely poor.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/robotron-2084

